Wes is 2 months old!

It's been a wild 2 months with the little dude. More on this later (it's 1am).

The real pregnancy

Being pregnant, I loved taking cute pictures of my bump ... but I was organizing some photos and found this one that Matt took (when I wasn't looking).  The middle of July (10 days before Wes was born), hot as Hades, feet swollen, reading a baby book...  Very glamorous!

"It's a beaut, Clark."

So we finally got a new furnace.

I know, exciting blog-worthy news. But when you're furnace looked like this - running at 80% efficiency, rusted out in the inside, and overheating so that the nameplate melts down -- it can be pretty exciting stuff to get a new one.

OLD Janitrol Furnace (5 years ago - looked better)

New Trane XV95

2010 is the last year for the tax credit, and our city is offering rebates up to $1000 per household for any energy changes made to your house (we had the audit a month ago). So all in all, we got a good deal on this Trane XV95. Already our house is cooling much better.

Look like?

Matt

+ Rosemarie

= Wes

First walk on the Prairie Path

We usually do our daily walks around town , this time we needed a change of scenery.

Baby formula recall

It took a while to get on the Similac website, but the formula that we had been feeding Wes is on the list of recalled products. (if you had not heard, beetles & larvae were found in several containers so the product has been recalled).

I'm upset not only because this is something that I was feeding my infant, but because I wanted to exclusively breastfeed my baby and circumstances led me to supplement with formula which led my overall milk supply to decrease. I can still and do still breastfeed daily, but not exclusively. It was a catch-22 for sure. And you can be assured my breastmilk doesn't contain larvae... Caffeine and high amount of chocolate superchunk ice-cream maybe, but pretty sure no beetles!
My only consolation was that just 1 week ago, after another bout of gas pains and screaming, we changed the baby to Enfamil GentleEase on the advice of our pediatrician (which so far is working). So could Wes's problem be because of the larvae? I'm not willing to dig into the canister of formula to find out!

Making a Bears fan

My grandpa came over with a football for Wes. This is funny because I come from a very un-sporty family, but all of a sudden they are all very excited about this new boy in our family and with that is all sports stuff!
I already bought Wes his first Cubs outfit to wear next spring. We like the Cubs, the rest of my family are all Sox fans but the Sox outfit at the store was more expensive :) I wonder why??